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WordPress Prompting for FTP Credentials

If you just want to see my recommended permissions for a DocRoot, that is here. When updating plugins, themes, or the WordPress core – or when activating WordFence (and possibly in other situations), you may be prompted for FTP credentials for the webserver. If so, this indicates that WordPress was not able to write to […]

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Payments Not Processing in WooCommerce

Customer receives error at shopping cart when trying to complete (charge) order – error was something like “Error processing payment, please try again later”. WooCommerce > Status > Logs > woocommerce-square-sync-XXX log shows repeated: Solution: Disconnect Square from WooCommerce in Dashboard > WooCommerce > Settings > Integrations, and then reconnect to Square. note: Upon reactivation, […]

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Wordfence: You are temporarily locked out

If users are seeing a page reporting that they are temporarily locked out, and the page contains a Wordfence logo, they have probably been blocked by our brute-force protection rules in Wordfence. This appears to be potentially a compoundable problem if multiple users may try to access the site from the same IP, so even […]

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bash Command Not Found

If you try to run a command, but bash says it can’t find it, like: Use locate to find the the path to the command Add that path to the system PATH variable NOTE: does not persist through logout/logon src

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SVN Export / Download Old Version WordPress Plugin or Theme

Check if the version you want is easily accessible from the WP plugin directory Find the plugin Click Advanced View Scroll to the bottom, and see if the version you want is available If the version you want isn’t available, you can build it from the SVN repo Install a command line svn client like […]

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Force Login Prompt in SharePoint 2013/2016

To login to a SharePoint 2013/2016 site and force it prompt for login instead of automatically signing in with the current Windows user account, append the above string to your site URL. For example, https://sharepoint.example.com/mysite/_layouts/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true This can be useful to login as a different user. source

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Traversing SharePoint in PowerShell

This is a collection of snippets of PowerShell that I found helpful when trying to access SharePoint data via PowerShell. Another great resource is probably Shane Young. NOTE: Pretty sure all commands return security trimmed results, so make sure the user you are running as has appropriate permissions, otherwise some results may be omitted. Create […]

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Installing SharePoint 2016 Updates

Planning / Pre-work Check what patches have already been installed Connect to Central Admin Click Upgrade and Migration Click Check product and patch installation status Review Updates installed on each server to see what patch level has been reached. Download desired patches Compare installed to Microsoft’s SharePoint History List Download the patch(es) that you want […]

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Import & Export MySQL/MariaDB from Command Line

To import a MySQL db: To export a MySQL db: To import to a Docker container To export to a Docker container

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Adding/Installing SSL/TLS/HTTPS

Some of these steps can be completed via command line with wp-cli if installed by using commands generated from this tool. To find out if wp-cli is installed, try running wp cli version. Adding the Cert These instructions are for SiteGround hosting with a free Let’s Encrypt certificate. Other hosts support of Let’s Encrypt and […]